L. 8. _Désille._ See the above introductory notice.

L. 6. The body of Mirabeau was transferred to the Pantheon on April 5,

1791.

L. 10. Voltaire died in Paris in 1778, but as the clergy had not been

called upon to assist him at his last moments his body was denied

sepulture in Paris, and was buried at the Abbey of Scellières, of which

a nephew of his was commendator. His remains, however, re-entered Paris

solemnly on July 11 of the same year, where they lie in the crypt of the

Pantheon.

L. 15, _tu conduiras Jourdan._ _Tu_ refers to _divin triomphe_. Jourdan,

nicknamed _Coupe-tête_, was at the head of the brigands of Vaucluse

during the disturbances in the South of France in October, 1791.

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